Books with author Hope Hoffman

Excerpt from The Sloyd System of Wood Working: With a Brief Description of the Eva Rodhe Model Series and an Historical Sketch of the Growth of the Manual Training IdeaThe object of this book is to give an account of the theory and practical application of the "Naas System" of manual training. Although the principles upon which this system has been founded are very fully explained in the two educational monographs of the New York College for the Training of Teachers, entitled "The Sloyd in the Service of the School," by Otto Salamon, and "Manual Training in Elementary Schools for Boys," by A. Sluys, a full exposition of the subject as taught in the Naas Slovd Seminarium, and as incorporated in the Swedish public schools, has not as yet appeared. The author hopes that the following chapters may in a measure supply this want.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Titan is bound by his honor to uphold his father’s laws, even when logic would demand otherwise. Laws that keep the West from retaliating when attacked by enemy kingdoms, that keep Titan from being with the woman he loves, and that ultimately keep his father from being armed while in negotiations with the mad-man known as Devvon. But when Devvon murders all neighboring kings, Titan must learn to survive in a world where religion and magic interweave, where the laws of kingdoms and physics are little more than suggestions, and where Titan, his sardonic boyhood friend, and the woman he is fated to be without must choose to either take up dangerously seductive powers or let the kingdoms fall back into an age of terror.

Titan is bound by his honor to uphold his father’s laws, even when logic would demand otherwise. Laws that keep the West from retaliating when attacked by enemy kingdoms, that keep Titan from being with the woman he loves, and that ultimately keep his father from being armed while in negotiations with the mad-man known as Devvon. But when Devvon murders all neighboring kings, Titan must learn to survive in a world where religion and magic interweave, where the laws of kingdoms and physics are little more than suggestions, and where Titan, his sardonic boyhood friend, and the woman he is fated to be without must choose to either take up dangerously seductive powers or let the kingdoms fall back into an age of terror.